What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou are — your life, and nothing else.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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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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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Life is a useless passion.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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