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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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We are our choices.
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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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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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