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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Book Empty Heart Human Myself
In love, one and one are one.
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Love One Liner Oneself
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
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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Change Myself Mystery Philosophy World
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
One 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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Failure Language Ourselves Spring
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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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Alone Bad Company Lonely
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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Myself Philosophy Woman
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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Existence Light Myself
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Lying Truth Worst Worth Yourself

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

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