We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Life is a useless passion.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Hell is – other people!
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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We are our choices.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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