It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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