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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

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Music Myself Suffering Yourself
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Heart Myself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Important Philosophy Reaction
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Important Philosophy Reaction
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence God Man
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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Death End Life Myself Thinking
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Fear Myself Philosophy
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Life Moments Myself Remember
I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Feeling Myself
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death Myself
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Time Yourself
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
I am myself and I am here.
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Myself One Liner
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Oneself Philosophy

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