One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBeing is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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