A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA 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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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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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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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 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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Hell is – other people!
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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