I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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