I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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