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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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