People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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