You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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We are our choices.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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In love, one and one are one.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to 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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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