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Quotations
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French
Philosopher,
Dramatist,
Writer and
Critic
"Death is a continuation of my life without me." "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." "Existence precedes and rules essence." "Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing." "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." "God is absence. God is the solitude of man." "If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company." "It is only in our decisions that we are important." "Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive, life is nothing; it's up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose." "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." "Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." "Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises himself, he is therefore nothing else by the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is ... In life, a man commits himself, draws his own portrait and there is nothing but that portrait." "Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor." "One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else." "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." "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." "Reality alone is reliable." "She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist." "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget." "We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." "We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity - it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me." "We do not judge the people we love." "We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact." "Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."
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