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.
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 found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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