A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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