It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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