What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREThere is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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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 therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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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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As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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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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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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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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