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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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