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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWords are loaded pistols.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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