Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere 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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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