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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Deep Eyes Ruin Smile
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Choice Direction Ourselves People
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Nature Philosophy Spiritual
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Leaving Myself Place Worth
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Instagram Captions Life Risk Worth
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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Death Goodness
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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Death End Life Myself Thinking
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Empty Myself Tragedy

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