There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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We are our choices.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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