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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Life Moments Myself Remember
Hell is – other people!
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Hell People
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Break Change Thinking Yourself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Lying Truth Worst Worth Yourself
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Existence Forget God Myself
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Choice Myself Religion
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
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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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
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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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree

The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.

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