I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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