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 SARTREWhen the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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