You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life is a useless passion.
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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.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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