I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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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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