Life is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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