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Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose


Jean-Paul Sartre

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LEO F. BUSCAGLIA To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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ALAN MANN There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, tur...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE آن جا که تمام جامعه بد است، فقط می توان در مبارزه شرکت ک�...
SARTRE JEAN-PAUL Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, so...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE ¿Quieres creer en mí? Te querría entonces más que a mí mismo.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Mientras que tú piensas: agua pura, querida agua pura, solo estaré a medias en este lugar, solo a ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
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