Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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 know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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