Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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