...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
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A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
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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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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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Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon th...
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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
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All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'I should myself have thought,...
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Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.''I still don't unde...
