Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREGenius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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In love, one and one are one.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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We are our choices.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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