Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDeath is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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