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I 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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

People 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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Value Yourself
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Woman
It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Feeling Lonely Myself Strange
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man Philosophy Transformation
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Escape Genius Himself Man
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Adventure Enough Necessary
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Leaving Life Man Philosophy
You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Philosophy Yourself
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 SARTRE

Leaving Myself Place Worth
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Cold Darkness Sea Sun
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death End Life Myself Thinking
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 SARTRE

Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Important Philosophy Reaction
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Break Change Thinking Yourself
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Empty Heart Human Myself

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