Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMy eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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