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"I am alive because you want me to."
"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."
"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
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"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
"I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom."
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