There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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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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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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