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.
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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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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We are our choices.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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