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Existence is prior to essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Value Yourself
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Fear Myself Philosophy
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Books Learning Life Myself
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Philosophy Science Time
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Empty Heart Human Myself
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Music Myself Suffering Yourself
You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Philosophy Yourself
It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Hate Himself Man Self Love Thinking
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Heart Myself
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Empty Myself Tragedy
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Important Philosophy Reaction
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Oneself Word
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Believe Myself
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Act Feeling Passion

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