There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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We are our choices.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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