Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFreedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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 am myself and I am here.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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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 am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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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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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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There 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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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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