Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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