We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I am myself and I am here.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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