For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREWe are our choices.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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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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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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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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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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