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.
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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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