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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf 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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of 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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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