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Nothingness haunts Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
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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Change Myself Mystery Philosophy World
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Decision Important Ourselves
I am myself and I am here.
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Myself One Liner
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Nature Philosophy Spiritual
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Book Empty Heart Human Myself
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking
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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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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