Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Life is a useless passion.
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