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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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