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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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Animal Heart Lie
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Empty Myself Tragedy
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Escape Life Ourselves See
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Decision Feeling Live Thinking
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Oneself Philosophy
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death End Himself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death End Life Myself Thinking
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Dream Myself Truth
Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Value Yourself
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence God Man
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Cold Darkness Sea Sun
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Empty Heart Human Myself
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Deep Direction Oneself Philosophy
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Leaving Life Man Philosophy

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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