You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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Hell is – other people!
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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