Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done 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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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We are our choices.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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