Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHe is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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I am myself and I am here.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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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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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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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 am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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