Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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