Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is an imperfection.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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