I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYour judgement judges you and defines you.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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