Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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 was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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