I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELife is a useless passion.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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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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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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I am myself and I am here.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Hell is – other people!
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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