Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is an imperfection.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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