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

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~












I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

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"Nothingness haunts Being.
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"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.
"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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