Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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?
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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