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Life is a useless passion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death End Life Myself Thinking
I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Failure Language Ourselves Spring
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Act Feeling Passion
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Important Library Myself Religion
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Feeling Myself
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Important Philosophy Reaction
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Nature Philosophy Spiritual
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Philosophy
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Funny Myself Thinking
You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Philosophy Yourself
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Believe Myself

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