You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFor an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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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 am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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