I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife 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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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 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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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