Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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