He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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