Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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In love, one and one are one.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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I am myself and I am here.
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