As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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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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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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