I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am myself and I am here.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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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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We are our choices.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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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 that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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