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 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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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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