I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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