I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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I am myself and I am here.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I’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.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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