All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHell is – other people!
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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