I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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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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