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 exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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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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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousness that thinks.
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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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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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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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