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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one 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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Words are loaded pistols.
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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 wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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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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