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I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Born Death Existence Philosophy Reason Weakness
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
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Deep Freedom
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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Existence Light Myself
I do not think, therefore I am a moustache.
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Funny Myself Thinking
A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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Leaving Life Man Philosophy
I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
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Failure Language Ourselves Spring
What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
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Important Philosophy Reaction
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Books Learning Life Myself
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
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Deep Philosophy Result Silence Word
Nothingness haunts Being.
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Human One Liner
We are our choices.
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Choice Ourselves
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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Choice Oneself Philosophy
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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Morning Philosophy Start
What is there to fear in such a regular world?
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Fear World
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
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Beginning Change Live People Reason Yourself
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.
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Distance Existence Greatness Heart

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