Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is an imperfection.
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We are our choices.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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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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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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