There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Hell is other people.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
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