To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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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 think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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