Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am myself and I am here.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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