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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?


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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.



Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.




Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.



Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.



We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

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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What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.



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I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.



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