It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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Do you think that I count the days? 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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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
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In love, one and one are one.
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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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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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We are our choices.
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Hell is – other people!
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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