Jean-Paul Sartre quotes - page 9

Existence is an imperfection. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. View quote
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books. View quote
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. View quote
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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? View quote
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. View quote
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your judgement judges you and defines you. View quote
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head. View quote
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The aim of language... is to communicate... to impart to others the results one has obtained... As I talk, I reveal the situation... I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. View quote
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Existence is prior to essence. View quote
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I am myself and I am here. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is. View quote
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I do not think therefore I am a moustache. View quote
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I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be. View quote
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. View quote
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An individual chooses and makes himself. View quote
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. View quote
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The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks. View quote
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A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness... and suddenly the "I” pales, pales, and fades out. View quote
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I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm-because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn't recognize it any more. View quote
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It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies? (Jean-Paul Sartre)
That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst. View quote
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. View quote
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it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else. View quote
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Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey. View quote
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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: June 21, 1905
Died: April 15, 1980
Quotes count: 371
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