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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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