#existentialism

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

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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

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I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me.

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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as

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The trivialities natural to life, the insignificancies of the normal and vulgar, lie like a layer of dust, tracing a blurred,...

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.

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I question myself but do not know myself. The part of my life not wasted in thinking up confused interpretations of nothing

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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing

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Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of

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Where you go wrong is that you imagine that your reasons for living ought to fall on you, ready-made from heaven, whereas

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To risk one’s life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence —

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When Nietzsche said You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star, and Anaïs Nin said In chaos there ...

Only when we are able to attribute a real meaning to the world and to life shall we be able to give ourselves to such action

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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.

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