What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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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Hell is – other people!
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
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A madman’s ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.
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Words are loaded pistols.
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I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it’s urgency.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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.
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