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Existence is prior to essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Light Myself
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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Alone Bad Company Lonely
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Myself Oneself Word
A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
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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Future Man Philosophy
You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Life Philosophy Yourself
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Book Important Library Myself Religion
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself

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