I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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