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Jean-Paul Sartre

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Destroy Man Philosophy
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Believe Myself
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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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Escape Life Ourselves See
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Eyes Feeling Myself
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Beginning Life
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Man Philosophy Transformation
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Deep Direction Oneself Philosophy
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
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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Book Important Library Myself Religion
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Morning Philosophy Start
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Body Funny Philosophy
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.
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Leaving Myself Place Worth
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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Change Myself Mystery Philosophy World
I am myself and I am here.
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Myself One Liner
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
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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Feeling Myself
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Existence Myself Philosophy
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Lying Truth Worst Worth Yourself
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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God Human Nature
Words are loaded pistols.
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Weapon Word

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

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