The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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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.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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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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We are our choices.
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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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