I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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We are our choices.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Life is a useless passion.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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