The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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We are our choices.
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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 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 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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