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Death is a continuation of my life without me...

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

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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 ...more

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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, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

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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...more

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People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

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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...more

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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.

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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old...more

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I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself f...more