We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIt was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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