We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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 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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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