It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Life is a useless passion.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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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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