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Existentialism Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
- Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in…
- Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness…
- Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
- A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others…
- The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and…
- As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as…
- I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that…
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- Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. — Jean-Paul Sartre
- I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
- Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre
- One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all… — Jean-Paul Sartre
- We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery