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

Jean-Paul Sartre

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
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Existence Forget God Myself
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Beautiful Oneself Ourselves Time
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Philosophy Science Time
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Time Yourself
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Deep Eyes Ruin Smile
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
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Escape Life Ourselves See
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Believe Myself
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Break Change Thinking Yourself

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

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