Life is a useless passion.
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.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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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’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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.
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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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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Existence is an imperfection.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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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 have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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