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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Book Empty Heart Human Myself
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Escape Life Ourselves See
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Future Man Philosophy
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Failure Language Ourselves Spring
Life is a useless passion.
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Life One Liner Passion
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Decision Important Ourselves
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Eyes Feeling Myself
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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Destroy Man Philosophy
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
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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Existence Light Myself

You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

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