There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Hell is – other people!
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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