I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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 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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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