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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
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 Light Myself
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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Book Himself Philosophy Universe
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Deep Philosophy Result Silence Word
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Break Change Thinking Yourself
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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Heart Myself
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
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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Book Important Library Myself Religion
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Exception Live Philosophy
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Lying Truth Worst Worth Yourself
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Beginning Life
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Funny Myself Thinking
Life is a useless passion.
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Life One Liner Passion
Nothingness haunts Being.
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Human One Liner

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

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