To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Hell is – other people!
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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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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