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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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All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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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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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

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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...more

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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...more

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[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my action...more