A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBeing is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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