Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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 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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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 confused things with their names: that is belief.
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We are our choices.
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Hell is – other people!
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Life is a useless passion.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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