I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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