Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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