Words are loaded pistols.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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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 suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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As 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.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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