I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I am myself and I am here.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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