Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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In love, one and one are one.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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