I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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.
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