Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou are — your life, and nothing else.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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