Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Hell is – other people!
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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We are our choices.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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