If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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We are our choices.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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