Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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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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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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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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