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I am myself and I am here.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
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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Life Value Yourself
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Death Goodness
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Existence Myself Philosophy
I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Breathe Myself Thinking Yourself
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Himself Life Man Material
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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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Feeling Lonely Myself Strange
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Leaving Myself Place Worth
I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Choice Myself Religion
It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Body Funny Philosophy
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Nothingness haunts Being.
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Human One Liner
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking
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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Deep Myself Philosophy
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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Time Yourself
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Book Empty Heart Human Myself
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Philosophy Science Time
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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Philosophy Responsible
Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy Yourself
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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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Existence Light Myself

I am myself and I am here.

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