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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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