I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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 think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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