[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. The Existentialist...
We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.
Tuesday: Nothing. Existed.
Something is beginning in order to end: adventure does not let itself be drawn out; it only makes sense when dead. I am drawn, irrevocably, towards this death which is perhaps mine as well. Each insta...
Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense.
It is an abstract change without object. Am I the one who has changed? (...) I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of smal...
I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.
Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering ther...
After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.
Man is a useless passion.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through p...
A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
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.
گوتز: تۆ جوانی و جوانی دیاری شەیتانە.هیلدا: دڵنیای؟گوتز: من ئیتر لە هیچ شتێک دڵنیا نیم. ئەگەر حەز و هەوەسەکانم ڕازی بکەم، تووشی گوناح دەبم بەڵام خۆم لە چنگیان دەرباز دەکەم؛ ئەگەر نەمهەوێت ڕازییان بکەم...
من تقوا ندارم، شاید فرزندان ما باتقوا شوند، به‌شرط آنکه ما آن‌قدر خون جاری کنیم تا حق داشتن فضیلت را به آنها بدهیم.
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You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you th...