Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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