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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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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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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I am myself and I am here.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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