I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel 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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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 suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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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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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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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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