He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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?
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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Hell is – other people!
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Life is a useless passion.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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