Life is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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 said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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