A Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.
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Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
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Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.
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