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From Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
- My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
- Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
- Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
- We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.
- When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.
- I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
- There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
- She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
- I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy…
- Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
- Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may…
- I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
- Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
- I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight…
- I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
- My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment…
- I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart –…
- I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so…
- I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
- If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
- Now I am weary and I can nolonger tell good from Evil, and I need someone to show me the way.
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