Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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 therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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