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...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

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People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

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

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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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I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the ...more

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Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. ...more

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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.

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Nothingness haunts Being.

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Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

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Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being who...more

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What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards,...more

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There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothin...more