Life has no meaning a priori, It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREBetter a good journalist than a poor assassin.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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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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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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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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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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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