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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Deep Eyes Ruin Smile
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Time Yourself
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
Hell is – other people!
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Hell People
Words are loaded pistols.
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Weapon Word
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
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Escape Genius Himself Man
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Philosophy Responsible
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
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
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 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 think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Death End Life Myself Thinking
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
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

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