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"The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it."
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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."
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"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."
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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."
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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
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"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."
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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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"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."
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"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
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"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."
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"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
Wisdom
"Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous."
Perception
"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."
Liberty
"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
Dignity
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Fortune
"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
Passion
"If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage the life and death of Jesus were those of a God."
Spiritual
"I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one's own age."
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