Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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