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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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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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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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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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