Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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