It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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Life is a useless passion.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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