Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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