It is only in our decisions that we are important.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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We are our choices.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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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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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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