"I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape."
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"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."
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"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
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"Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey"
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"A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work."
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"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
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"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."
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"Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves."
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"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."
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"It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?"
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"The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence."
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"Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)"
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"What is not possible is not to choose."
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"The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks."
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"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
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"Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts."
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"I am responsible for everything... except my very responsibility."
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"One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough."
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"When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything."
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