You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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We are our choices.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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