I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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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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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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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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Existence is an imperfection.
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