Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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 suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Existence is prior to essence.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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