What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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