What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREOne always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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Hell is – other people!
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Existence is prior to essence.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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We are our choices.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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