I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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