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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Himself Mad Man Philosophy
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Atheist Believe Herself
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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Myself Oneself Word
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Danger Myself Thinking Yourself
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Defeat Victory Yourself
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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Adventure Enough Necessary
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Existence Philosophy
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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Existence Oneself Philosophy
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Beautiful Oneself Ourselves Time
I 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.
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Life Moments Myself Remember
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Destroy Man Philosophy
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
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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Book Himself Philosophy Universe

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