One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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We are our choices.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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