What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I am myself and I am here.
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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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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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 confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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