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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

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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...more

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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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Death is a continuation of my life without me...

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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 ...more

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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...more

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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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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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For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be somethin...more

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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and define...more

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I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, ...more