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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I am myself and I am here.
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