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Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.
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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This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain cracked quality.
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