Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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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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I am myself and I am here.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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