Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enoughJean-Paul Sartre
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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