What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREDo 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.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?
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To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.
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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 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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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I am myself and I am here.
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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
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I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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