That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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