All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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