Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Words are loaded pistols.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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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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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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