Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Hell is – other people!
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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