It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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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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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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