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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Philosophy Responsible
Life is a useless passion.
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Life One Liner Passion
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Philosophy Science Time
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Funny Myself Thinking
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
In love, one and one are one.
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Love One Liner Oneself
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Deep Eyes Ruin Smile
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Act Feeling Passion
I am myself and I am here.
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Myself One Liner
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Break Change Thinking Yourself
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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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Empty Myself Tragedy
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Animal Heart Lie
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Man Philosophy Transformation
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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Book Important Library Myself Religion
A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
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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Philosophy Start Thinking Yourself
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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Death End Life Myself Thinking
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Death End Himself
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking

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