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Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience. ↗


— Walker Percy


#existentialism #experience #genuineness #the-self #experience

He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. ↗


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#philosophy #death

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning. ↗


— Susan Moody


#life

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.' As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was. ↗


— Paulo Coelho


#life #meaning #life

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment... ↗


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#existentialist #nausea #men

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. ↗


— Albert Camus


#existentialism #honesty #seeking #truth #desire

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#existentialism #conformity

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. ↗


— Jean-Paul Sartre


#jean-paul-sartre #language #the-plague #existentialism

You don't have to stay anywhere forever. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#existentialism

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été. ↗


— Albert Camus


#hope #philosophy #existentialism






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