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 SARTREFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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.
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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’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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 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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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?
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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