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.
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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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