I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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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 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 haunts Being.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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