Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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 think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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