Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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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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