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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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.
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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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