I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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We are our choices.
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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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