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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know 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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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