Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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 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 am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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