Nothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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Hell is – other people!
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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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Do you think that I count the days? 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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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