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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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We are our choices.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I 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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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