I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe are our choices.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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 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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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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