We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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?
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Hell is – other people!
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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