Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I 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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to 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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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