The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I am myself and I am here.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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