All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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