What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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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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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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