Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou are — your life, and nothing else.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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 a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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 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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