I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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