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 SARTREWe are our choices.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Life is a useless passion.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I am myself and I am here.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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