I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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In love, one and one are one.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Hell is – other people!
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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