We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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