I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Hell is – other people!
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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.
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