A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Hell is – other people!
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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