Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am myself and I am here.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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In love, one and one are one.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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We are our choices.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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