Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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 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 never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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