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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."
Albert Camus
Attributed
"The struggles of life are what give us purpose."
Albert Camus
Attributed
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free."
Albert Camus
"Absurdity is the essential concept and the only truth."
Albert Camus
"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday."
Albert Camus
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide."
Albert Camus
"The only way out is through."
Albert Camus
Attributed
"I rebel; therefore, I exist."
Albert Camus
"Living is an art form."
Albert Camus
Attributed
"Revolt is the only coherent philosophy."
Albert Camus
"Consciousness is a being such that it is in question insofar as this being implies being other than itself."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"We are our choices."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Man is condemned to be free."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Life is nothing until it is lived."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Existence precedes essence."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Anguish is the price of freedom."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Hell is other people."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Bad faith is the disposition to deceive oneself."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."
Simone de Beauvoir
"It is impossible to become aware of anything except in a relationship."
Simone de Beauvoir
"The tragedy of a woman is that she is always a vassal."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
Simone de Beauvoir
"Authentic love must be founded on freedom."
Simone de Beauvoir
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"Motherhood is the key to understanding gender."
Simone de Beauvoir
"It is for man to establish the reign of freedom in the midst of freedom."
Simone de Beauvoir
"The ethical problem is the problem of the authentic relationship."
Simone de Beauvoir
Attributed
"I am my choices."
Simone de Beauvoir
Attributed
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Victor Frankl
"The desire to find meaning is the primary human motivation."
Victor Frankl
Attributed
"Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment."
Victor Frankl
Attributed
"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."
Victor Frankl
"The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour."
Victor Frankl
"Freedom of will, even though restricted, is possessed by every human being."
Victor Frankl
Attributed
"The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Victor Frankl
Attributed
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
Victor Frankl
"Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'"
Victor Frankl
"Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones."
Victor Frankl