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“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
― René Descartes

“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
― Rene Descartes

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
― René Descartes

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
― Descartes

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
― Descartes

“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”
― Rene Descartes, The Principles Of Philosophy