"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
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"Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is."
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"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too."
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"We are our choices."
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"He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word."
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
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"Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose."
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"We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us."
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"What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence."
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"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism."
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
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"In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations."
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"I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!"
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"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
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"There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours."
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"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
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"I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life."
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"We do not judge the people we love."
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