Today's fragment
Résonances
Préparation de l’expérience éditoriale.
Antonin Nivoche © 2026
Today's fragment
Préparation de l’expérience éditoriale.
Antonin Nivoche © 2026
Hell is other people. But freedom too. Jean-Paul condemned you to choose. At every moment. Without excuse.
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Jean-Paul thought the world before living it. Voice of Paris.
Existence precedes essence. Each choice creates you. freedom weighs.
Asked questions everyone was avoiding. freedom, responsibility, commitment.
Nausea (1938).
Being and Nothingness (1943).
11 quotes
“L'existence précède l'essence.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Existence precedes essence.”
— L'Existentialisme est un humanisme
“L'enfer, c'est les autres.”
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“Hell is other people.”
— Huis clos
“L'homme est condamné à être libre.”
Original quote in French
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“Man is condemned to be free.”
— L'Être et le Néant
“Agir est l'essence même de l'homme.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“To act is the very essence of man.”
— Les Mouches
“Tout ce que je sais de ma vie, c'est que j'ai eu l'impression de la mener.”
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“All I know of my life is that I felt like I was living it.”
— Les Mots
“On est ce qu'on fait.”
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“We are what we do.”
— Inconnu
“Chaque mot a des retentissements. Chaque silence aussi.”
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Suggested translation
“Every word resonates. Every silence as well.”
— Qu'est-ce que la littérature ?
“La liberté est ce que vous faites de ce qu'on vous a fait.”
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“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
— Inconnu
“Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.”
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“The more, the merrier.”
— Inconnu
“L'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il se fait.”
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“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
— Inconnu
“Un intellectuel, c'est quelqu'un qui se mêle de ce qui ne le regarde pas.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“An intellectual is someone who meddles in what is not his business.”
— Inconnu
