Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREExistence 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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We are our choices.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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