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Man is the being whose project it is to be God.
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.
We make our own hell out of the people around us.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.
I know only one Church: it is the society of men.
It is only in our decisions that we are important.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.
Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.