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...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

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Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.

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If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is ...more

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There are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free and not free.

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We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon th...more

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Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

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All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'I should myself have thought,...more

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Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.''I still don't unde...more