I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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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’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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We are our choices.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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