What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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