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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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