She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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 want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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