I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Life is a useless passion.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Hell is – other people!
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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