I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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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.
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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.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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