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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness haunts Being.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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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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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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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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