Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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 never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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