What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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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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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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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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