That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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