I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREAll that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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