We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife 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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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If 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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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