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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.
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If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.
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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
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It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
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Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
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