Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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 is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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