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Quotes from Being and Nothingness — Jean-Paul Sartre

1905–1980 France

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

I am responsible for everything ... except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

Man is a useless passion.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

All human activities are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed to failure.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

I am condemned to be free.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

Man is always separated from what he is by all the breadth of the being which he is not. He makes himself known to himself from the other side of the world and he looks from the horizon toward himself to recover his inner being.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away.... To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Being and Nothingness (1943)

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