It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan 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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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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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 am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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 had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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We are our choices.
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