...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, no...
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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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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 ...
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There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.
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Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you b...
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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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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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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.
