Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDo 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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 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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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