As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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