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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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 found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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