Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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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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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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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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