If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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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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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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