I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Life is a useless passion.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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