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Existentialism Quotes

"The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die"

"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe"

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain"

"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there"

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe"

"Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny."

"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."

"I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and look at the stars."

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little"

"You can't describe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event"

"I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go."

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."

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