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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Act Feeling Passion
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Life Value Yourself
Words are loaded pistols.
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Weapon Word
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Book Important Library Myself Religion
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
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
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Funny Myself Thinking
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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God Human Nature

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

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