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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBeing is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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I 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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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 found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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