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The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change 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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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
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Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.
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I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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I think [Alain Robbe-Grillet] a good writer, but he speaks to the comfortable bourgeoisie.
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Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?
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Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
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A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.
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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
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There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs.
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The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
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Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
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