Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt 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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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