It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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