I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Hell is – other people!
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