A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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