It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to 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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Hell is – other people!
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I 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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I am myself and I am here.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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