Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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 love, one and one are one.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Hell is – other people!
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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