Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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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 had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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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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We are our choices.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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