We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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