You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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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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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 am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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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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