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.
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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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 confused things with their names: that is belief.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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