What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREMan is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep.
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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Hell is – other people!
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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
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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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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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