We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDeath is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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