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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Hell is – other people!
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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