What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothingness haunts Being.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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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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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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It’s strange. I felt less lonely when I didn’t know you.
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I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in, but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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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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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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