To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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