I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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