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.
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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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