To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThat’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Hell is – other people!
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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