You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Life is a useless passion.
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