I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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 said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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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.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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