When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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 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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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Hell is – other people!
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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