To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHell is – other people!
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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