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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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