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.
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Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
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One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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We are our choices.
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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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Nothingness haunts Being.
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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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I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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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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In love, one and one are one.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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