You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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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Existence is an imperfection.
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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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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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