Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRESmooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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