Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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