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?
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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