The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is an imperfection.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I am myself and I am here.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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