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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.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre It is only in our decisions that we are important.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre 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.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Life is a useless passion.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre
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