Jean-Paul Sartre - No Exit (1947)

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Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

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Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

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What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves absent, that is more proper.

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Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

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You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.

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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

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I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be.

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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.

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So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

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Your crystal? That's silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the window. The crystal is shattered on earth, and I do not care. I am no longer anything but a skin, and my skin does not belong to you.

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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

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Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.

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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

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Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

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One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

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It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

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I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

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Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

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