I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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