Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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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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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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