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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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.
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Heart Myself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.
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Death Live Oppression
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
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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Death End Life Myself Thinking
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
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Believe Myself
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
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Eat Existence Live Myself Tree
People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
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Choice Direction Ourselves People
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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Decision Important Ourselves
I am a mere breath of air; a formless thought that thinks of you.
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Breathe Myself Thinking Yourself
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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Death Goodness
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.
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Empty Myself Tragedy
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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Life Moments Myself Remember
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Destroy Man Philosophy
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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Morning Philosophy Start
Your judgement judges you and defines you.
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Character Judgement Yourself
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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Book Important Library Myself Religion
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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Leaving Myself Place Worth
People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?
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Appearance Friendship Learning Live Naked People See
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Presence Sport Team
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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Death Life Moments Oneself Philosophy Yourself
I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Failure Language Ourselves Spring
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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Myself Philosophy Woman
You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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Mindset Myself Pain Yourself
That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
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Existence Forget God Myself

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