Existence is an imperfection.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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