In love, one and one are one.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife begins on the other side of despair.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Hell is – other people!
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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.
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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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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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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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