All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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We are our choices.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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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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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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