Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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 confused things with their names: that is belief.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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