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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Life is a useless passion.
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