Hell is – other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWhat is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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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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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Words are loaded pistols.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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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 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 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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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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