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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPeople 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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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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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 found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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