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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
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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In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.
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Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!
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This then is the age of reason.
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