"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."
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"I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist."
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
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"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
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"I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything."
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"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
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"Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man."
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"I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm."
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"Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes."
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"Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession."
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
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"Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity."
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"There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point."
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"There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs."
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"I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs."
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"Death is a continuation of my life without me."
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"One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world."
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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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"Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough."
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