All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I 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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Hell is – other people!
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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