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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #meaning #purpose #resilience #existentialism
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

—Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951)
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #human-condition #identity #existentialism #nature
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

—Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951)
Category: PhilosophyMood: BoldTags: #freedom #rebellion #authenticity #existentialism
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: PhilosophyMood: BoldTags: #freedom #responsibility #agency #existentialism
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We are our choices.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #choice #responsibility #identity #existentialism
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

—Søren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #time #understanding #living #existentialism
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