Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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 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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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