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Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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 needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.
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There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
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The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.
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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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