Hell is – other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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 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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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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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 am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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