Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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