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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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