Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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