Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnce you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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