Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWords are loaded pistols.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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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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In love, one and one are one.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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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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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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