What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREYou’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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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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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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You are — your life, and nothing else.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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