I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Do 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.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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