Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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We are our choices.
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