I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI 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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Life is a useless passion.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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In love, one and one are one.
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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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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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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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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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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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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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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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I 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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Existence is prior to essence.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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