One is still what one is going to cease... by Jean-Paul Sartre | We Heart Quotes

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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Other quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

Chance

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Sons Blood Right Will

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Truth

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

God Being

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Decisions

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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