If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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