As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOnce 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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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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