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.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRETo know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
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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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I am myself and I am here.
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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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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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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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Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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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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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?
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Existence is prior to essence.
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.
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Existence is an imperfection.
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I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.
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