I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne 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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In love, one and one are one.
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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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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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We are our choices.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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