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?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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