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A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.
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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Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
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That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
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