People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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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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