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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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