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.
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 myself and I am here.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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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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In love, one and one are one.
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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 that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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