A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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 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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