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"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."
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"I am alive because you want me to."

"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

"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."

"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

"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."

"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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"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."

"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."
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