I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Hell is – other people!
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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