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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
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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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Empty Myself Tragedy
It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Feeling Lonely Myself Strange
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking
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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death Live Oppression
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Feeling Myself
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
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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Deep Myself Philosophy
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Philosophy Science Time
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Time Yourself

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

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