All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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I am myself and I am here.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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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.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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