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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Life is a useless passion.
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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 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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I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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