People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothing 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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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