Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Nothing 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’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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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