A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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 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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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