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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, no...more

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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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Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being who...more

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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 define...more

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I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, ...more

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I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its paws with the nail of the other paw; I feel its w...more

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Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?...It would have to be a book: I don't know how to ...more

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This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

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He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, bene...more