Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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 said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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’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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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