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 ...
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There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon th...
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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...
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In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not...
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The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding...
