I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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