I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere 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?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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We are our choices.
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Do 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.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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