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 Oh I actually have more quotations from Ethics of Ambiguity:

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. They have striven to reduce mind into matter, or reabsorb matter into mind, or to merge them within a single substance. Those who have accepted the dualism have established a hierarchy between body and soul which permits the considering as negligible the part of self that cannot be saved. They have denied death, either by integrating it with life or by promising men immortality. Or, again they have denied life, considering it as a veil of illusion beneath which is hidden the truth of Nirvana.

Reading about existentialism makes one aware of the limits of the English language and notice the odd (to English) compound words that are needed to (somewhat accurately) convey the concept. Makes me not want to read the original text as the difficulty in comprehension compounds. No wonder Satre taught himself German.

If this choice [of being] is considered as useless, it is because there exist no absolute value before the passions of man, outside of it, in relation to which one might distinguish the useless from the useful.

The truth is that outside of existence there is nobody. Man exists. For him it is not a question of wondering whether his presence in this world is useful, whether life is worth the trouble of being lived. These questions make no sense. It is a matter of knowing whether he wants to live and under what conditions.