There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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