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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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We are our choices.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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