People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIn football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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We are our choices.
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