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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Decision Feeling Live Thinking
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Break Change Thinking Yourself
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Books Learning Life Myself
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Nature Philosophy Spiritual
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
Nothingness haunts Being.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Human One Liner
It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Body Funny Philosophy
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Alone Bad Company Lonely
I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Death Myself
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Funny Myself Thinking
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Believe Myself
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Presence Sport Team
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Cold Darkness Sea Sun
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Leaving Myself Place Worth
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Deep Direction Oneself Philosophy

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