I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife 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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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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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In love, one and one are one.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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