We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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