"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
About this quote
Widely attributed to Sartre and consistent with his existentialist emphasis on self-creation and authenticity, but no verified primary source — specific book, essay, or interview — has been identified by quotation researchers. The sentiment aligns with Sartre's argument in Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946) that the capacity to sit alone with one's own consciousness without distress is a mark of the authentic self, which has faced radical freedom rather than fled into the distractions of bad faith. The database records it as "Attributed."
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Attributed
