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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Age: 74 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
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Absurd, irreducible nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
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It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?
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The absurd man will not commit suicide he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
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I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
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Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
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That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?
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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.
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