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.
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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Do you think that I count the days? 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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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