What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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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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Do you think that I count the days? 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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Hell is – other people!
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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