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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?

Jean-Paul Sartre

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
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
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Existence Forget God Myself
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
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
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
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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Leaving Myself Place Worth
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Nature Philosophy Spiritual
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Deep Direction Oneself Philosophy
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Poor Rich Suffering War
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Alone Bad Company Lonely
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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Morning Philosophy Start

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