Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Existentialism
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
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Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.
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In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.
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Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
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I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
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One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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