Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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