Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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 had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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