What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI’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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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We are our choices.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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