The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYour judgement judges you and defines you.
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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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