There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is prior to essence.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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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.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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