Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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We are our choices.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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