I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou are — your life, and nothing else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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