Existence 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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREShe believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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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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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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