All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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 said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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