What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRENothing 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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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
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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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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.
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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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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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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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Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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You’re lucky. I’m always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.
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To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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It was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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