Hell is – other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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 suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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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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