It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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 wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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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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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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