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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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 prior to essence.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Hell is – other people!
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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