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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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