Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Hell is – other people!
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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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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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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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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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 are our choices.
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