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 SARTREWe do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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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 want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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