Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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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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Do you think that I count the days? 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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Hell is – other people!
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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 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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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