You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan 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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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 exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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In love, one and one are one.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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