What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREEvery word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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Life is a useless passion.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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