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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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 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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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