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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Fear Myself Philosophy
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Existence Light Myself
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Exception Live Philosophy
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
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
Hell is – other people!
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Hell People
In love, one and one are one.
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Love One Liner Oneself
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
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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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Man Philosophy Transformation
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Myself Oneself Word
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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Book Important Library Myself Religion
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
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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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
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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Morning Philosophy Start
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Body Funny Philosophy
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Animal Heart Lie
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
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Book Empty Heart Human Myself
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Deep Philosophy Result Silence Word
A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

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