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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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