It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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