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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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