All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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