One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is prior to essence.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Hell is – other people!
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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