I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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