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"Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass it
toward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippled
without choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as
'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all')." | | Uncategorized | |
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| Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. | | Actors and acting | |
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| Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough | | Suffering | |
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| Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. | | Uncategorized | |
| Everything has been figured out, except how to live | | Uncategorized | |
| Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. | | Freedom | |
| Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Hell is other people. | | Hell | |
| I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. | | Uncategorized | |
| I confused things with their names: that is belief. | | Uncategorized | |
| I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence | | Justice; Trust | |
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| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
