It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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