A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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We are our choices.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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