I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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