It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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 think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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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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