Life is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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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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