All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDo 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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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Existence 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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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