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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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