I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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