The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
Become who you are!
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are.
Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.
Only he who loves something is something; to be nothing and to love nothing are identical.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
I think, therefore I am.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Some things are hastening to be, others to have come and gone, and a part of what is coming into being is already extinct.
Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Sometimes I think. Sometimes I am.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Man is the shepherd of Being.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.
Man will be what he will have planned to be.
To be is to be perceived or to perceive.
Men are as the time is.
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.
We do not do what we want and nonetheless we are responsible for what we are.
For if I am deceived, I am.
I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
I am not what I once was.
We are nothing; what we seek is everything.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
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