Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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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