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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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[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

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

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Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

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Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see ...more

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My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

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After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty ...more

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It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some...more

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certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps ...more

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I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its paws with the nail of the other paw; I feel its w...more

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It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them...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