I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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