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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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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.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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 prior to essence.
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We are our choices.
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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.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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