Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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