That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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We are our choices.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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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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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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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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