I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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 am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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