Man is what he wills himself to be. - Jean-Paul Sartre

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How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is what he wills himself to be.

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He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.

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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.

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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

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