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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere 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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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 wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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