People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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