Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe are our choices.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is prior to essence.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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