Existence is prior to essence.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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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 must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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We are our choices.
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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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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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