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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere 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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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