That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Hell is – other people!
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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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