Existence is prior to essence.
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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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Life is a useless passion.
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We are our choices.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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