I am myself and I am here.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter a good journalist than a poor assassin.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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 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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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