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Existence is an imperfection.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Feeling Myself
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Choice Direction Ourselves People
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Empty Myself Tragedy
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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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
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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Leaving Myself Place Worth
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death Live Oppression
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Eyes Feeling Myself
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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Philosophy Start Thinking Yourself
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
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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Heart Myself
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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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
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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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Body Funny Philosophy
I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Choice Myself Religion

Existence is an imperfection.

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