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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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