What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through 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 think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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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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Life is a useless passion.
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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Hell is – other people!
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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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