Nothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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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 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?
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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