Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Life is a useless passion.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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