If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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 had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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