I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter a good journalist than a poor assassin.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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We are our choices.
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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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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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