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.
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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Hell is – other people!
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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