We must act out passion before we can feel it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnly the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am myself and I am here.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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?
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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