If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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