Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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