You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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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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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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