As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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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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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 want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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We are our choices.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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