There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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