Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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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 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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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