I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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