You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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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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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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