What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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 am myself and I am here.
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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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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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