One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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