The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Do you think that I count the days? There 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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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