We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREPerhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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