I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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