Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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 is a useless passion.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I am myself and I am here.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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