Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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I am myself and I am here.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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