Life begins on the other side of despair.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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