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 SARTREOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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