Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREGenius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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