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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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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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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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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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In love, one and one are one.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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