I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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