Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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