You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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We are our choices.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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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