I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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