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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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Morning Philosophy Start
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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Leaving Myself Place Worth
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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Man Philosophy Transformation
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
I 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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Existence Light Myself
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Fear Myself Philosophy
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart
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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Future Man Philosophy
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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Decision Feeling Live Thinking
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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Expectation Ideas Myself Opposite
I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Existence Myself Philosophy
Hell is – other people!
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Hell People

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