What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
JEAN-PAUL SARTREI confused things with their names: that is belief.
More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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Death is a continuation of my life without me.
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I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
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Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being – like a worm.
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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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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.
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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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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
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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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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
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