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 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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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