People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREGenius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDo 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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