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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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