What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThat’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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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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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 can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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