I am myself and I am here.
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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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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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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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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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