Life is a useless passion.
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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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