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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
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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Book Important Library Myself Religion
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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God Human Nature
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Man Philosophy Transformation
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Choice Direction Ourselves People
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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Life Value Yourself
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Feeling Myself
It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Hate Himself Man Self Love Thinking
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?
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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
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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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
Existence is prior to essence.
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Existence One Liner
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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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite

I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

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