Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDeath is a continuation of my life without me.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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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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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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