Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELike all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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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?
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