I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is there to fear in such a regular world?
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In love, one and one are one.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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We are our choices.
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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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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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