"People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Nothingness haunts Being.
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"There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
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"Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.