"Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind."
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"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
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"Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'."
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"No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within."
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"Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death."
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"It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths."
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"Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more."
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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."
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"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises."
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"Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)"
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"To eat is to appropriate by destruction."
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"This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither."
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"Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being."
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"I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things."
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"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things."
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"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it."
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"Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own"
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"One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him."
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"The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."
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