I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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Do you think that I count the days? 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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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