We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness haunts Being.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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