Jean-Paul Sartre

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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 more at all.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

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“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

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“I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

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“Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

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“What’s done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don’t talk about it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

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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.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/yG4P7R2zbT

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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/mDePsM4ezY

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“Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/0OzEVrF5vk

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“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterwards.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/GdUe7qOsqr

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“My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think … and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it’s frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the...” https://t.co/c59i1Vf6Q7

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“I said to myself, I want to die decently.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/kGRwLRkWAi

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“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you...” https://t.co/Ur5m8zpgIY

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“It is only in our decisions that we are important.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/iaqr9MME5z

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“An individual chooses and makes himself.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/SLpQcrs7Qc

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“Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/MZbVFsITcm

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“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she...” https://t.co/fb4fPyDbU2

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“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many...” https://t.co/sIRqc8B1Jd

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“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.” - Jean-Paul Sartre https://t.co/1f8O223gUl