We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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