Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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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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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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