Nothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRELittle flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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 have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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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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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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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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