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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREConsciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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