What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREIf 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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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Existence is prior to essence.
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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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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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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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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