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 SARTREFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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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 am myself and I am here.
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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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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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As 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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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