to do something is to create existence

"To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence."

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one’s self endlessly.

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Pour un être conscient, exister consiste à changer, changer à se mûrir, se mûrir à se créer indéfiniment soi-même.

Doing something is expressing our own nature. We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer.

The meaning of existence is existence, which insight, once accepted and affirmed, makes existence unbearable.

I am thinking, therefore I exist.

I am, I exist.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire: the hatred, the disgust of existing, there are as many ways to make myself exist, to thrust myself into existence. Thoughts are born at the back of me, like sudden giddiness, I feel them being born behind my head...if I yield, they're going to come round in front of me, between my eyes, and I always yield, the thought grows and grows and there it is, immense, filling me completely and renewing my existence.

Live as though life was created for you.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

To exist is simply to he there; those who exist let themselves be encountered, but you can never deduce anything from them.