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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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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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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Hell is – other people!
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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