Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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