That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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?
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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 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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