I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDo 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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