Nothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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We are our choices.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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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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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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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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