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 SARTREAll men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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.
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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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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?
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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