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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREHell is – other people!
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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