Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFor an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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 more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with 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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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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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I 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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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