He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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