A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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 God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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