Existence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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 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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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Man 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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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