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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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Death End Himself
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death Live Oppression
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
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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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
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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Morning Philosophy Start
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Book Empty Heart Human Myself
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Deep Eyes Ruin Smile
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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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
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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Heart Myself
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Exception Live Philosophy
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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
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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Leaving Myself Place Worth
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Beginning Life

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