It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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