I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to 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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Life is a useless passion.
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