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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Lying Truth Worst Worth Yourself
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Beginning Life
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death Goodness
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Death End Himself
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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Myself Oneself Word
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Exception Live Philosophy
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
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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Deep Myself Philosophy
Words are loaded pistols.
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Weapon Word
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Philosophy Science Time
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Hate Himself Man Self Love Thinking
In love, one and one are one.
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Love One Liner Oneself
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Heart Myself
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death Live Oppression
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
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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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Escape Life Ourselves See
You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Life Philosophy Yourself
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Philosophy
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Eyes Feeling Myself

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