What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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In love, one and one are one.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Life is a useless passion.
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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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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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