There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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People 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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I am myself and I am here.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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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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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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