Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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