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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREA man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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