Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the chestnut trees, or their distance from the Velleda, or their height as compared with that of the plane trees; each of them escaped from the pattern I made for it, overflowed from it or withdrew. And I too among them, vile, languorous, obscene, chewing the cud of my thoughts, I too was superfluous. [I is you or I or anyone.] Luckily I did not feel it, I only understood it, but I felt uncomfortable because I was afraid of feeling it. . I thought vaguely of doing away with myself, to do away with at least one of these superfluous existences. But my death — my corpse, my blood poured out on this gravel, among these plants, in this smiling garden — would have been superfluous as well. I was superfluous to all eternity. JeanPaul Sartre
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Samuel Beckett
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the...
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Betty Friedan
I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
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Woody Allen
We are gods with anuses.
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Ernest Becker
More Quotes By JeanPaul Sartre
In love, one and one are one.
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a...
