For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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 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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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