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"Existence precedes and rules essence."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
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"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
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"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."
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"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
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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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"The universe is flux, life is opinion."
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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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"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
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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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"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

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
Literature

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
Politics

"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."
Man

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
Life

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
Experience

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
Religion

"Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
Philosophy

"Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction."
Memory

"Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man...."
Philosophy
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