I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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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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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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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 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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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