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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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 never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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