We make our own hell out of the people around us.

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He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.

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Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

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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.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.

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