Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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