I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe are our choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhen the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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