That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHell is – other people!
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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