The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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 suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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