All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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I am myself and I am here.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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