Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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