A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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 only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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In love, one and one are one.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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