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You are — your life, and nothing else.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Heart Myself
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
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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Leaving Myself Place Worth
I 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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Feeling Myself
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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God Human Nature
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Time Yourself
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death Live Oppression
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Hate Himself Man Self Love Thinking
Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Character Judgement Yourself
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Philosophy Science Time
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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Life Moments Myself Remember
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Beginning Life
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Act Feeling Passion
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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Philosophy Start Thinking Yourself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Life Value Yourself
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
Existence is prior to essence.
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Existence One Liner
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Choice Direction Ourselves People
I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Change Myself Mystery Philosophy World

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