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.
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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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