Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness haunts Being.
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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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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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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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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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