I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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 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 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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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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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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 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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