As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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