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 SARTREBetter a good journalist than a poor assassin.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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.
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