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“Do you know what happens to your body when you’re afraid?” I asked. “You sweat, your heart rate increases, your adrenaline level spikes. Do you know what happens when you’re angry? Sweat, heart rate, adrenaline. And when you’re
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“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”
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“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
― The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
“What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.”
― Existentialism is a Humanism
― Existentialism is a Humanism
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