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.
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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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