If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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I am myself and I am here.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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