I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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We are our choices.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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