For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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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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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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 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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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