We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothing 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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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