There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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 never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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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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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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