If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is ...
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There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
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Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
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Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you b...
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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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Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be somethin...
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There is no reality except in action.
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I haven’t had any adventures. Things have happened to me, events, incidents, anything you like. But not adventures. It isn’t a matter of words; I am b...
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You are -- your life, and nothing else.
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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.
