"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."
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"Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant."
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"The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die."
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"Death is a continuation of my life without me."
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"Nothingness haunts Being."
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"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
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"Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing."
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"One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away."
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"Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates."
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"When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death."
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"Don't you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist."
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"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"
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"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
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"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
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"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."
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