Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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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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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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