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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 defines himself afterward."
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"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."
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"What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once."
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"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."
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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 defines himself afterward."
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"Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?"
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"We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad."
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"And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shining on this city or any city, to think no more, to feel no more, to leave behind the march of time and the sun like a piece of wrapping paper, to remove like a heavy suit " next to the big bed " the involuntary effort of being."
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"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
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"Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict."
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"In the purifying sweep of atheism human beings lost all special value. The numb misery of the horse was matched by that of the farmer; the once-green ferny lives crushed into coal's fossiliferous strata were no more anonymous and obliterated than Clarence's own life would soon be, in a wink of earth's tremendous time. Without Biblical blessing the physical universe became sherry horrible and disgusting. All fleshy acts became vile, rather than merely some. The reality of men slaying lambs and cattle, fish and fowl to sustain their own bodies took on an aspect of grisly comedy--the blood-soaked selfishness of a cosmic mayhem."
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"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
Politics
"Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?"
Man
"She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal."
Happiness
"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
Fact
"What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me."
God
"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."
Sex
"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
Man
"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
War
"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
Man
"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking."
Thought
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