A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.
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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 ...
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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
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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...
