Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence is an imperfection.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Hell is – other people!
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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I am myself and I am here.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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