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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
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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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
Existence is prior to essence.
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Existence One Liner
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Choice Direction Ourselves People
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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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
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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Leaving Myself Place Worth
It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Body Funny Philosophy
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
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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Alone Existence Heart Myself Suffering
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Existence Light Myself
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Act Feeling Passion
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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Book Himself Philosophy Universe
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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Future Man Philosophy
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Myself Philosophy Spiritual Thinking
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Himself Life Man Material

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