I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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We are our choices.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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