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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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