Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREFor an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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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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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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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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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.
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Nothingness haunts Being.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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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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Tme is too large, it can’t be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati’s.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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