Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present


Jean Paul Richter

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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
JEAN PAUL
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly con...
JEAN PAUL
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the fir...
JEAN PAUL
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL
The very afflictions of our earthy pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate ...
RICHTER
Every man has two educations – that which is given to him, and the other, that which he gives to h...
RICHTER
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Три часът. В три винаги е твърде късно или твърде рано з...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.
JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO
Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE