The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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