As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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