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| Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat | | Victory | |
| One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else. | | Life | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. | | Uncategorized | |
| She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. | | Uncategorized | |
| So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sometimes the less treaded way is less treaded for very good reasons. | | Uncategorized | |
| That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget | | God | |
| The existentialist says at once that man is anguish. | | Uncategorized | |
| The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity | | Generosity | |
| Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. | | Uncategorized | |
| To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. | | Uncategorized | |
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| To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June | | Uncategorized | |
| Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. | | Responsibility | |
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| We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact | | Uncategorized | |
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| What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. ... Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence.Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. | | Uncategorized | |
