It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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