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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Morning Philosophy Start
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Decision Important Ourselves
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Decision Feeling Live Thinking
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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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
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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Life Moments Myself Remember
Life is a useless passion.
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Life One Liner Passion
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Instagram Captions Life Risk Worth
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Man Philosophy Transformation
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Death End Life Myself Thinking
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
In love, one and one are one.
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Love One Liner Oneself
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Act Feeling Passion
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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God Human Nature
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Existence God Man
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Beginning Life
Words are loaded pistols.
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Weapon Word
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Feeling Myself
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Music Myself Suffering Yourself

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