Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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We are our choices.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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