What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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We are our choices.
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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 do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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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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