The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELike all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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 said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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