Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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