Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAs far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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 wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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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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