There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Life is a useless passion.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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