You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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