Words are loaded pistols.
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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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 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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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