I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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