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- Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
- Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
- Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,…
- The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can…
- I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night…
- 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…
- The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists…
- It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital…
- There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.' There…
- There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on…
- Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
- I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or…
- 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…
- In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it…
- Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
- 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…
- Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social…
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from the…
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