People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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