Life is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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 there to fear in such a regular world?
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In love, one and one are one.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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 think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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