What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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Death is a continuation of my life without me.

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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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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

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We make our own hell out of the people around us.

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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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Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

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