I am myself and I am here.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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 said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Hell is – other people!
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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