Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Words are loaded pistols.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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