The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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 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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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