The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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I 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.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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 never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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