Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThe more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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