Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

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The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free. They are free, Aegisthus. You know it, but they do not.

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I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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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.

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If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

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Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

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