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I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself f...more

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With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection.

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Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never known what I am? My vices, my virtues, are under my...more

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Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

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Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is ...more

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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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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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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.