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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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We are our choices.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Hell is – other people!
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Life is a useless passion.
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