Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form 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.
("Nausea")
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All the same, they books do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it that critical mirror alone offers him his image.Jean-Paul Sartre
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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.
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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
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