The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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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.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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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